jpdb beta

well-known; famous; noted; popular; recognized

1

refugee; displaced person; person inconvenienced by (lack of something); person unable to satisfactorily (marry, shop, etc.)

1

answering machine; answerphone

1

love hotel

1

to disappear; to vanish

3

being struck mad by love; foolish passion; blind love; infatuation; jealousy

1

tangle; entanglement; snarl; complication; difficulties; trouble

1

trading sexual favours (for career advancement, etc.)

4

soiling; polluting; shame; disgrace; chopped fish, shellfish or vegetables, dressed with (miso or other) sauce

2

change (personnel); transfer; reshuffle

1

in accordance with; according to

2

counter for scraps, fragments, petals, etc.

1

big-shot; influential person; happy face; smiling face; sympathetic attitude; getting along with

3

to be frank; to drop all pretense

1

secret society

1

self; oneself

6

talented; gifted; prodigious; virtuoso; masterful

1

pyramid scheme

1

to double

3

bound hand and foot; hedged in (e.g. by restrictions); immobile

1

to cut deep into; to cut one's way into (an enemy position); to rush on; to press someone hard (e.g. with questions); to get to the heart of (a matter)

1

not good; bad

1

to believe; to believe in; to place trust in; to confide in; to have faith in

1

to publish a book; to put out a book

1

one's post; one's station; department; bureau; section

2

to extract; to pull out; to draw out; to headhunt; to lure away; to poach

1

to be charmed by

1

final; eventual; ultimate

4

natural; reasonable; obvious

1

district; region; the country; countryside; civilian society

12

to drink the night away

1

a little; a bit; slightly

1

disquieting; threatening; turbulent; restless; unsettled; disturbing

2

to well up (of tears, anger, joy, etc.); to surge up (within oneself); to rise; to feel nauseated; to feel sick

2

discussion; discourse; lecture; sermon

3

friendship; friendly relations; connection; relation; intimacy

1

publisher; publishing house; publishing company

2

to violate the law; to have a brush with the law; to have a run-in with the law

1

to cut into (a conversation); to interject

1

moment to quit; way to quit

4

insult; affront; slight; contempt (e.g. of court)

6

really (seem, appear, etc.); truly; evidently; in that way

3

under (guidance, supervision, rules, the law, etc.); under (a flag, the sun, etc.); beneath; with (e.g. one blow); on (the promise, condition, assumption, etc. that ...); (somebody's) side

13

weathering; fading (of memories); efflorescence

3

to fire from a job

3

stealing

7

one night; all night; overnight; one evening

3

to flare up; to fly into a rage

4

committee member

2

cat person

1